Deployment options

The Things Stack is a powerful LoRaWAN Network Server, available in different deployment scenario's to fit your requirements. Purchase The Things Stack with your existing AWS account, or directly from The Things Industries.

Cloud

Hosted service from The Things Industries

AWS Launcher

Launch our software as a template in your AWS cloud account

Enterprise

Host and manage our software in your own infrastructure, providing full security and version control

Dedicated Cloud

Managed and hosted by The Things Industries on isolated infrastructure

General

OTAA and ABP devices

LoRaWAN 1.0.x and 1.1.x

Class A, B, C devices

AES128 symmetric encryption

EU868, US915, AU915, CN470, AS923, KR920, IN865, RU864

LoRa 2.4GHz

LoRaWAN Backend Interfaces

Device management

Multicast sessions

Adaptive Data Rate

Fine-grained MAC settings

Bulk actions via GUI, API and CLI

Firmware updates over the air

Device profile library

Zero-touch provisioning

Geolocation (WiFi, TDOA, GPS)

Gateway management

Frequency plan and transmit power configuration

Channel plan customization

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Gateway status reporting

-

Bulk actions via API and CLI

UDP packet forwarder

LoRa Basics Station packet forwarder:

Authenticated connection

Encrypted gateway traffic

Remote control and gateway reboot

Retrieve gateway logs for debugging

Network management

Events API for debugging and analytics

-

-

Alerting engine

-

-

-

HTTP, MQTT & gRPC APIs

-

-

-

Data retention

30 days

Custom

Custom

Custom

Multi-tenancy

Custom domain name and white label console

User rights management and user grouping

Billing API

Interoperability

Passive roaming

Network peering via Packet Broker

3rd party Join Server configuration

Integrations

Template integrations with major IoT platforms

AWS IoT Core integration

Single Sign On (OAuth, OpenID Connect)

Distribution

Join Server only distribution

Deployment regions

Global

AWS regions

Custom

AWS regions

Deployment model

SaaS

Amazon Machine Image

Docker
Kubernetes
AWS ECS

SaaS

Infrastructure

Shared

Dedicated

Dedicated

Dedicated

Instance replication and load balancing

Infrastructure managed by

TTI

AWS

Customer

TTI

Version updates controlled by

TTI

Customer

Customer

Customer

Complimentary testing environment/license

Support

Service availability (SLA)

>99,9%

n/a

n/a

>99,95%

24/7 monitoring, alerting & incident management

Documentation and forum

Technical Helpdesk support
(available support plans)

Optional

Optional

Migration support

Fees & billing

The Things Stack Discovery (30 devices, 3 gateways, 3 users)

Free forever

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Free trial

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The Things Stack for 1000 end devices (see volume pricing)

EUR 190/month*

USD 0.336/hr

EUR 500/month*

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Standard Helpdesk support plan (see all support plans)

EUR 200/month*

EUR 200/month*

Standard plan
included

Priority plan
included

Billed by

TTI

AWS

TTI

TTI

Subscription term

1 or 12 months

Per hour

1 or 12 months

1 or 12 months

Minimum contract term

1 month

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1 month

12 months

* 10% discount applies to annual subscriptions

Open source

The Things Stack is also available as open source distribution or free service offered by The Things Network.

Join Server only

The Things Stack can also deploy Join Server only. So you can perform security operations in your trusted environment and connect to any LoRaWAN network provider. Talk to one of our sales engineers to find out more.